SUMMARY Poor households in rural South Asia are facing a cooking energy crisis, due to acute domestic fuel shortages. This article explores the implications and causes of the crisis, and seeks to explicate the three?way ...

SUMMARY This article reports the findings of a field investigation conducted in four villages in Bangladesh during 1985. It explores the extent of fuel shortages; asks who is effected; identifies underlying causes; and ...

SUMMARY The urban poor generally use low quality, inefficient and high cost fuels to achieve low standards of energy service. Their fuel supplies are often precarious but they spend more of their income than others on ...

SUMMARY This article tries to penetrate the superficial similarities in the ‘woodfuel crisis’ experienced by women in Kenya and Lesotho. In Lesotho, integration into the South African mine labour system has left many women ...

SUMMARY Brazil's National Alcohol Programme is the largest biomass liquid fuel programme in the world, implemented as a response to the 1973 oil shock. The Programme is a success when looked at from the perspective of a ...

SUMMARY This article reviews research related to the direct and indirect use of fossil?fuel energy in agriculture. One standard analysis of this relationship suggests that increasing fossil?fuel energy intensity of food ...

SUMMARY Nigeria's oil sector generated a large temporary macroeconomic windfall. This had powerful general equilibrium effects on poverty both during the windfall itself, when producers of non?oil tradeable goods suffered ...